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The New Stack

The New Stack is a media platform for the people who build and manage software the world relies on. We provide context and explanation of at-scale technologies to advance knowledge and create conversations through our coverage of modern architectures, components of the software development life cycle, and operations to

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thenewstack.io > cohere-north-translate-sovereignty

“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world's languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

9+ hour, 27+ min ago   (203+ words) Cohere's North Small Translate beats DeepL and Google Translate on WMT26 across 50 languages — but commercial use requires a Model Vault license....

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thenewstack.io > openai-agent-research-bottleneck

AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI's own numbers back it up

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (317+ words) OpenAI's agents log 3.1 workdays for every human one, but more hours don't mean faster breakthroughs — and supervision may be the real bottleneck....

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thenewstack.io > coding-agents-tool-choice

“Twenty years of brand building simply froze in time”: How coding agents select their tools of choice

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (311+ words) A new study shows Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex pick wildly different tools for the same job - and vendors are racing to influence the choice....

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thenewstack.io > building-trust-agentic-rag

Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (500+ words) Agentic RAG requires clear evidence. Discover how tracking retrieval decisions, metadata, and citations builds trust in AI agent outputs....

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thenewstack.io > unicode-ascii-smuggling-ai-pipelines

Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (249+ words) Attackers are inserting invisible Unicode tag characters into phishing emails at massive scale. The same trick can break AI agent pipelines that ingest untrusted text....

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thenewstack.io > gpt6-astra-developer-access-delayed

"Sorry for the messy rollout": OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (29+ words) OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra but most developers still can't access the API. Here's what went wrong with the rollout and when broad access may arrive....

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thenewstack.io > openai-astra-harness-arc-agi-3

OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (217+ words) OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released on Thursday, scored higher and cost less with a different harness. It's the latest example of why the software around an AI model deserves as much attention as the model....

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thenewstack.io > nvidia-pair-local-inference

Nvidia PAIR lets you put your idle Macs and PCs to work for AI agents

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (311+ words) Idle Macs and PCs can take on your agents' model requests. Nvidia's PAIR routes work through Ollama or LM Studio while each model runs on one machine....

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thenewstack.io > muse-spark-1-3-gemini

“Google was ahead only a few hours”: Muse Spark 1.3 edges out Gemini as Meta claims its biggest coding leap yet

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (682+ words) ...

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thenewstack.io > astra-api-safety-stops

Your next OpenAI API timeout might not be a timeout at all

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (232+ words) OpenAI says Astra's safety monitors can stop API jobs mid-run, even on legitimate work. What developers need to know before the system card drops....